I build and run software for a living, and I write down what actually worked.

I'm a senior engineer who takes a product from the database to the deploy pipeline. Here I review AI tools, agents and self-hosted software by running them myself, and once a month I compare what the models cost.

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· Token market
· Nov 2026

The AI token market, in one table a month

On the first Monday of each month I put the published per-token prices next to each other, with columns for the price, the context window and what a typical job costs. The full post has every model. Here's the shape of it.

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Tier	Input $/M	Output $/M	Context	1k-ticket triage job	Change vs Oct
Frontier A	5.00	25.00	400k	$9.80	no change
Mid-tier B	1.20	6.00	256k	$2.36	−20% input
Small C	0.15	0.60	128k	$0.27	new this month
Open-weights D (self-hosted)	—	—	128k	≈$0.40 power	your hardware

$/M = US dollars per million tokens. The triage job is 1,000 tickets at about 1,400 tokens in and 250 out each.

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